Structures Practice Lead (Multiple Locations)

Wilson & Company

  • South Jordan, UT
  • $114,000-156,000 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 24 days ago
Wilson & Company is seeking a professional engineer with a minimum of 12 years of experience in the transportation engineering industry to serve as the Practice Leader for design and modeling support for a variety of projects related to structures including bridges, culverts, walls and other transportation related structures. The Practice Leader will lead the technical delivery and mentor less experience staff. The Practice Leader will also be responsible for client management, business development, and personnel elements of the structures team in Utah while developing strong working relationships with structures engineers across the firm.Role and responsibilities:Project Management
  • Manage design, plan preparation and construction services for the assigned projects efficiently and responsibly
  • Understand clients’ needs and design requirements
  • Manage project scope, fee and schedule and address requests for additional work
  • Prepare for and attend progress meetings on projects
  • Design and direct plan preparation activities for highway structures including reinforced concrete, prestressed concrete and/or steel bridges
  • Design retaining walls, drainage structures and other transportation related structures
  • Analyze structure needs and develop type, size and location recommendations
  • Ensure conformance to design standards
  • Verify that quality control procedures are met and documented
Staff Management
  • Maintain effective communication with all levels of staff and demonstrate leadership abilities with project team
  • Manage and direct the activities of the structures team to achieve project goals and deadlines
  • Manage assigned work load and schedule and forecast future resource needs
  • Mentor team members and build team consensus/buy-in
Client Relations
  • Develop and maintain strong client relationships to understand and identify current and future needs
  • Actively engage with pursuit team on pursuit life-cycle process, win strategies, proposal development, and interviews and presentations
  • Be a Wilson & Company brand ambassador
  • Supports company’s strategic objectives, processes, and tools
  • Identifies and engages in professional organizations and key conferences/industry events
  • Engages and collaborates with marketing team to identify and win new projects.
  • Enters and maintains applicable data using Vantagepoint
  • Project pipeline
  • Marketing campaigns
Required SkillsRequired Experience
  • Holistically represents Wilson & Company
  • One Company minded and unbiased
  • Team builder and leader
  • Relationship builder and maintainer
  • Strategic thinker
  • Great communicator and collaborator
  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Masters degree is a plus)
  • 12+ years of experience with transportation structural engineering design including bridge, retaining wall and other miscellaneous structures; the ideal candidate having 15 or more years of experience.
  • Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Utah, or ability to obtain within 6 months.
Please note that Wilson & Company is not currently sponsoring applicants for work visas.Annual Salary Range: $114,000 - $156,000Why join the Wilson & Company team
  • We value and intentionally plan for the employee experience, striving to make your day productive and valuable for you.
  • We value an appropriate balance of work/personal life and intentionally forecast and resolve workload issues ahead of time.
  • We practice Higher Relationships with our employees, clients, and communities that we work in to offer something more than a transactional relationship.
  • We are transparent to the employees of the company, executing One Company communication all-staff meetings monthly.
  • We are a mid-sized company, offering the ability to be competitive internally and externally at all levels. We compete with the smallest and largest engineering companies in the world and are successful in doing so every day.
  • We value talent from all directions, focusing on collaboration as the primary way to execute work and provide more value to our clients.
  • Holistically represents Wilson & Company
  • One Company minded and unbiased
  • Team builder and leader
  • Relationship builder and maintainer
  • Strategic thinker
  • Great communicator and collaborator
  • Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (Masters degree is a plus)
  • 12+ years of experience with transportation structural engineering design including bridge, retaining wall and other miscellaneous structures; the ideal candidate having 15 or more years of experience.
  • Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Utah, or ability to obtain within 6 months.
Please note that Wilson & Company is not currently sponsoring applicants for work visas.Annual Salary Range: $114,000 - $156,000Why join the Wilson & Company team
  • We value and intentionally plan for the employee experience, striving to make your day productive and valuable for you.
  • We value an appropriate balance of work/personal life and intentionally forecast and resolve workload issues ahead of time.
  • We practice Higher Relationships with our employees, clients, and communities that we work in to offer something more than a transactional relationship.
  • We are transparent to the employees of the company, executing One Company communication all-staff meetings monthly.
  • We are a mid-sized company, offering the ability to be competitive internally and externally at all levels. We compete with the smallest and largest engineering companies in the world and are successful in doing so every day.
  • We value talent from all directions, focusing on collaboration as the primary way to execute work and provide more value to our clients.

Wilson & Company